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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Sky Captain is so breathlessly paced, so consistently entertaining and so visually dazzling that nitpicking at its inspirations is near impossible to do while you're enjoying the ride. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A static, uninvolving experience. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Marvelous fun to watch. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Drawing from a well of pulp fiction, film noir and comic book imagery -- not to mention influences from The Wizard of Oz to Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- Conran and crew evoke a highly stylized 1939. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste. Read more
Carla Hall, San Francisco Chronicle: Sky Captain never exceeds the level of a clever exercise. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This movie would make Flash Gordon and Indiana Jones proud. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: As an imaginative visual experience, there's nothing like it. Today, at least. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A diverting if lightweight adventure. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The only thing keeping it from greatness is a good story. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow may be one of those films that leaves you humming the scenery, but it's a tune you won't easily forget. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Half of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a film of breathtaking vision and craftsmanship, a work of art that both summarizes the early history of cinema and takes it brilliantly, shimmeringly forward. The other half is not. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: This pulp fantasy spectacle is a fond tribute to beloved Movies -- with a capital M. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: A film to look at but not always listen to. But the impact of many of its images is worth all the rest. Read more
Sheila Benson, L.A. Weekly: Sky Captain is full of such nice, deft touches. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: You're more taken with its cleverness than swept up in wonder. Still, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow's goofy, ephemeral pleasures are difficult to resist. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Although Conran clearly enjoys the period, it's a stolen nostalgia -- you're not getting his memories of it, or even his memories of its films, but rather his memories of other people's memories of its films. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Missing beneath its fabulous surface, however, is anything like a beating heart. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Such an interestingly silly movie that I found myself idly wondering what particular audience was being targeted with its peculiar conceits and infinitude of special effects. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: When Sky Captain remembers that storytelling and characters matter more than design and special effects, it charms as well as impresses. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The visuals are something, the story something less. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of style-over- substance movies, but this one is so gorgeous that it's possible to become literally lost in the richness of the images. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Ultimately seems more like a fancy mechanical toy than a work of art we can warm up to. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: As the novelty wears off, it becomes increasingly apparent that what's going on in the background is more interesting than what's happening in the foreground. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: What begins as childlike and filled with wonder ends as childish and fraught with tedium. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: With its silky textures and fluffed up fake-studio imagery, Sky Captain is like a big warm pillow that threatens to smother you in downy gorgeousness. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: The clincher is how the actors are reduced to puppets and ciphers; Paltrow straight-jacketed in her Hildy Johnson-style two-piece and the evidently bored Law reduced throughout half the movie to giving the gimlet eye through flying goggles. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Hybrid of old Hollywood conventions and advanced digital technology is arresting at first but gradually trails off under the weight of its hyper-derivativeness and anxiety to please. Read more
Ed Park, Village Voice: His nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: This is a sophisticated movie, but one whose sophistication is surprisingly simple-minded. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A $70 million novelty item. Read more